Creature feature: Wolf
June 29, 2008 5:18 am Creature Feature
Wolves have always played the villain in fairytale stories like in Little Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs We have known wolves to be ferocious animals. Why is that so?
Wolf, or gray wolf or timber wolf, is the largest wild mammal of the order Carnivora. It is an ice age survivor, which lived from the Late Pleistocene some 300,000 years ago. It stands 26-36 inches tall and weighs between 20 to 68 kilograms. Studies on its DNA showed that gray wolves have the same ancestry with domestic dogs.
We’ve seen wolves (in television) in the forest and in the icy places. That is because wolves are adaptive creatures which can adapt immediately different temperatures.
